<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Last I'd look at Salt it had no Windows support. It looks like now there is a windows build for the minion. Do you have an idea of what the support is past that? That was the primary driver for us to end up with Puppet. It had the most support for doing useful things on Windows systems. In a heterogenous environment, that's a big deal. Lots of the puppet stuff is YAML under the covers. All the fact files and other reports, particularly against the puppetDB API is YAML. Makes parsing super easy.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 29, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Zach McNeilly <<a href="mailto:zach.mcneilly@gmail.com">zach.mcneilly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">With all the talk of Puppet and Chef, I feel like I really need to jump in and promote salt. SaltStack is easy to use, configure, and learn. It's open source, and the community is very welcoming towards user contributions. The community is fantastic, they quickly patch any bugs, and we really like that it's all done in Python because we can run it on any OS we use and we're all familiar with Python already.<div>
<br></div><div>Some other benefits:</div><div><br></div><div>- Salt uses zeromq instead of ssh for remote execution</div><div>- Salt uses simple rsa key pairs for authentication</div><div>- YAML is beautiful</div><div>- We've been using salt for about 8 months (rough estimate) and no one has tried to sell us anything.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When it came down to it, yaml, python, and salt's incredible community were why we went with it instead of Chef or Puppet.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:16 AM, John Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmill@brandeis.edu" target="_blank">johnmill@brandeis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Curious: what are those Puppet warts you see? Iteration is my bugbear, but not a huge one.<br><br>
</div>John<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:02 AM, seph <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seph@directionless.org" target="_blank">seph@directionless.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> - Which configuration management software are you currently using?<br>
> - If you are switching systems or have switched in the past, what were your<br>
> reasons?<br>
<br>
While I think puppet is vastly better than what came before it, I think<br>
it has several really ugly language warts. Thankfully, chef fixes<br>
them. I find having all of ruby as the language very freeing.<br>
<br>
I also want to strongly echo <a href="mailto:richb@pioneer.ci.net" target="_blank">richb@pioneer.ci.net</a> comments about the<br>
underlying shifts and discussion about testing and clouds.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
seph<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div><div class="">-- <br>John Miller<br>Systems Engineer<br>Brandeis University<br><a href="mailto:johnmill@brandeis.edu" target="_blank">johnmill@brandeis.edu</a><br>
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